Spirituality Poverty

Spiritual poverty is when we realize that we cannot go on under our own power.  If you are trying to do something, or stop doing something, and you find that you cannot, you have arrived at spiritual poverty.  Under your own power, you are stuck where you are, with no change.  But it is actually a spiritual place.  It is not the absence of spirit, but a new beginning.  You go from humiliation to humility.   You go from self-will to surrender, letting go of running the show.  Spirituality is when you actually seek help.  This connects you to a Power source, Spiritual energy that you did not have available to you when you were trying to do everything yourself and your way.  Then you begin to have spiritual riches, and your life evolves into its best self, a better self than when you were trying to do things your way.  I wake up each day with spiritual poverty and do what I need to do so that God can do what God wants to do.